Job 15:32
It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green.
Job 15:32 in other translations
| BSB | It will be paid in full before his time, and his branch will not flourish. |
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| WEB | It will be accomplished before his time. His branch will not be green. |
| ASV | It shall be accomplished before his time, And his branch shall not be green. |
| YLT | Not in his day is it completed, And his bending branch is not green. |
| DARBY | It shall be complete before his day, and his branch shall not be green. |
| BBE | His branch is cut off before its time, and his leaf is no longer green. |
| Webster | It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green. |
What does Job 15:32 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 15:17-35
Eliphaz maintains that the wicked are certainly miserable: whence he would infer, that the miserable are certainly wicked, and therefore Job was so. But because many of God's people have prospered in this world, it does not therefore follow that those who are crossed and made poor, as Job, are not God's people. Eliphaz shows also that wicked people, particularly oppressors, are subject to continual terror, live very…
Job 15:32 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Job 15:32
- Ecclesiastes 7:17
Be not over much wicked, neither be thou foolish: why shouldest thou die before thy time?
- Psalms 55:23
But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee.
- Job 22:16
Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood:
- Hosea 9:16
Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit: yea, though they bring forth, yet will I slay even the beloved fruit of their womb.
- Isaiah 27:11
When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, and set them on fire: for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will shew them no favour.
- Ezekiel 17:8-10
It was planted in a good soil by great waters, that it might bring forth branches, and that it might bear fruit, that it might be a goodly vine. Say thou, Thus saith the Lord God; Shall it prosper? shall he not pull up the roots thereof, and cut off the fruit thereof, that it wither? it shall wither in all the leaves of her spring, even without great power or many people to pluck it up by the roots thereof. Yea, behold, being planted, shall it prosper? shall it not utterly wither, when the east wind toucheth it? it shall wither in the furrows where it grew.
- Job 18:16-17
His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off. His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.
- Hosea 14:5-7
I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon. His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree, and his smell as Lebanon. They that dwell under his shadow shall return; they shall revive as the corn, and grow as the vine: the scent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon.
- Job 14:7-9
For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease. Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground; Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.
- Job 8:16-19
He is green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden. His roots are wrapped about the heap, and seeth the place of stones. If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen thee. Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the earth shall others grow.
- Psalms 52:5-8
God shall likewise destroy thee for ever, he shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of thy dwelling place, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah. The righteous also shall see, and fear, and shall laugh at him: Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength; but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness. But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God: I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever.
- John 15:6
If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.
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Context
- Job 15:31
Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence.
- Job 15:32
It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green.
- Job 15:33
He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.
Job 15:32 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | El será cortado antes de su tiempo, y sus renuevos no reverdecerán. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Avant son jour, elle sera complète, et son rameau ne verdira pas. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Noch ist sein Tag nicht da, so erfüllt es sich; und sein Palmzweig wird nicht grün. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Antequam dies ejus impleantur peribit, et manus ejus arescent. |